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That AC conversion of Virtua LM Mid Ohio is slightly disappointing. It is far too bumpy, with a handful of dodgy areas where the track grip changes significantly.

 

Yes, people slowing down for penalty in tricky places is always a big problem.
I had a great time today at Bathurst anyway.

I really hoped Mid Ohio would attract more than 2 people yesterday. I was on the server for over four hours, having only Schnipp and Mumaransa joining in that period.
Mumaransa also mentioned that the track is too bumpy. I have no such issues and would rate "track authenticity" 9/10 (my only reference being laser scanned iracing version).

 

Again, I'm really sorry for that. Wasn't even a penalty, I just wanted to let you pass safely because I knew you were faster and I still needed to warm up. In hindsight it was of course a stupid move right on the racing line, but in my defense in Helicorsa it did kinda look like you were going for a pass on the right so I tried to move to the left...

 

Don't worry at all. I kinda agreed with Schnipp's post when i mentioned penalty takers.

 

I remember doing pretty much exactly the same thing! Going a little wide after the chase, two wheels on the grass, thinking ****, I'm not going to make it (while having cars just ahead of me) and just flooring the throttle to avoid rear ending some poor unlucky innocent racer Racing was fun tonight, great fun chasing @baboon in his stupidly powerful gallardo

 

I don't remember against who it was, but a few days ago I did it too at Grobnik T1, was too late and floored it to not crash the car ahead.

 

Seems i'm going to receive the CSL LC pedals tonight, hopefully on-time for some Spa comparative testing .

 

I did some HW testing to see if the BOP has changed for some cars.
Corvette is still 3 sec slower but with Lotus V6, GTE Carbon, Mercedes SLS and Audi R8 gained some speed.
I added those cars and removed Lotus 2-11 and KTM.
If i'm wrong, we can revert back with few clicks.

 

OK, but SMW might be a bit obsolete then.

 

Removing the Lotus 2-11 and the KTM X-Bow R was the correct decision. They may deliver similar lap times to the other cars, but they do it in a completely different way.

 

If the new added cars show competitive then SMW is out of the picture.

 

No more freshly washed cats?!

 

This is the problem when we start messing about with the groups. The original MW group had the Skyline and Supra, but then the Cayman was added (almost certainly due to Porsche fever at the time), and the performance of this car resulted in changes being made. Since then, I feel that everything has become somewhat blurred with respect to the HW/SMW/MW groups. I appreciate that the introduction of v10 tyres (and inertia adjustments) has altered the relative performance of some of the cars, but is it really worth messing about yet again with the car selections? If SMW vanishes, then Ricky is going to be disappointed without his daily dose of cats in the washing machine!

To be fair, I am as guilty as others for suggesting alterations, but this was mainly because the introduction of the Cayman had created a disturbance in the Force, and the presence of the dark side was clouding my judgment

 

I'm ok with blending HW and SMW if it works out. Sure, I'll miss the RX7 Tuned too.


But I don't agree on the MW thing. V10 shifted the pace of some cars anyway, Skyline and Supra just weren't competitive anymore, but they really fit well into WW along with the other cars. WW seems to be the grid that has the smallest gap from fastest to slowest car of the roster.

 

Some numbers:

R8: low 2:00
Exige and Evora: mid to high 2:00
SLS: low 2:01 (but room to improve to mid 2:00)

but I'm already at a mid 1:58 and did several laps at 1:59.0 in the McLaren

The R8 might be OK, but the other three are a bit down.

A look at stracker shows similar data, the SMW cars seem to be a bit slow compared to the HW cars. Best of the SMW cars is 1:59.9, HW cars are all at 1:58.3 or faster.

 

First try with load cell brake pedal ... it's not easy to get used to it ( as BG said ).

I'm off my pace by about 0.7 - 1 second at Spa, after 4-5 races.
Definetely worth though, much easier to fine-tune braking.

 

First time I tried my CSR-elites pedal I was way off pace too, but soon enough I was right back and way more consistent in braking zones. Shouldn't take you long, and you wont ever want to go back

 

My very first laps were absolutely awful, ask @LeiF or @V8
I'll practice a bit.

 

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Experiment with the Fanatec softvare to reduce sensivity ( I did it was to sensitive from default)

 

I was wondering guys... Does the Clubsport pedals justify the difference on price? I'm was thinking to buy the Clubsport but the Elite LC should be enough for me.. I'm on a G25 stock pedal btw :S